Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

by Robert Lacey
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

by Robert Lacey

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Overview

"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale."
-Tom Brokaw


Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving from the bloody seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the Persian Gulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9/11 world, Inside the Kingdom brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101140734
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/15/2009
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 448
Sales rank: 326,907
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Robert Lacey is a British journalist and the author of the bestselling books The Kingdom, Majesty, and Ford: The Men and the Machine. For the past three years he has split his time between Saudi Arabia and London to research this book.

Table of Contents

Preface: Welcome to the Kingdom ix

Map: Saudi Arabia and Its Neighbors xvi

Family Tree: Rulers of the Kingdom xxviii

Note on the Islamic Calendar xx

Part 1 Kingdom of God

1 Angry Face 3

2 The Brothers 14

3 Siege 24

4 No Sunni, No Shia 37

5 Vox Populi, Vox Dei 46

6 Salafi Soccer 54

7 Jihad in Afghanistan 62

8 Special Relationship 68

9 Dawn Visitors 78

10 Stars in the Heavens 86

11 Into Exile 97

12 The Dove and the East Wind 105

13 Vacationing Jihadi 114

Part 2 Kingdom at War

14 Desert Storm 127

15 Battle for Al-Khafji 141

16 Awakening 148

17 Stopping the Sins 157

18 In from the Cold 167

19 Change of Heart 174

20 Enter the Crown Prince 180

21 The Students 193

22 Infinite Reach 204

23 New Century 214

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"This is high drama and an epic tale. Dazzling—-on every level." —-Tom Brokaw

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